Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £7.64 go to or call 03. SAS Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre is published by Viking (£8.99). Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work. In today’s world, where the SAS and their imitators play an ever more important – if controversial – role in combating terrorism and waging asymmetrical warfare, it is an instructive, as well as an engrossing, read. Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, among other books. He brings his familiar mix of thrilling anecdotes, meticulous accuracy and bizarre humour to a book that should appeal to many readers beyond military history buffs. What comes over most starkly in this gripping history is the eccentricity – often amounting to sheer lunacy – of the first SAS soldiers, their contempt for military rank and tradition, and their raw, suicidal courage.īestselling historian Ben Macintyre won exclusive access to the famously secretive regiment’s wartime archives to write this superbly researched story of the SAS’s early campaigns in Africa, Italy, and the liberation of western Europe from Nazi rule. Though they suffered horrendous casualties, their raids destroyed Axis aircraft and installations by the score, and contributed significantly to the allied victory in the second world war.
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